Word: israell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trying effort to associate those seedy bloated faces with the . . . Kings and Prophets of Israel...
...Testament prophets were dynamic-appearing individuals. Their singular countenances, beaming with inspiration and light, inspired awe and love in all who were blessed to see them. Michelangelo's Moses is a good example of what one might expect a prophet of Israel to look like...
...decided to select the best stories in the Old Testament, cut them down for easier reading, and present them in a big well-printed book, profusely illustrated by an artist who could make the prophets and kings of Israel as real as the corner grocer and the local minister. The pictures on the four following pages are examples of what he meant. Along with 24 others, they are full-page illustrations for the big (9 in. by 12 in.) book, In Our Image* edited by Harte and published this week. The 26 stories, told in the fine, measured English...
...picking up a brush, he read and reread the Old Testament, steeping himself in its character and drama. Then he began a patient, persistent search-among his friends, in public places, on trains and planes-for the faces that would fit his conception of the prophets and kings of Israel. Only one picture was posed: his son and daughter-in-law became Adam & Eve. The rest of the illustrations, painted without models, were combinations of Rowe's invention and memory...
...Israel, the Shofar's sound echoed for the first time in more than 2,000 years through a free land in which the People of the Covenant could walk in safety and peace. The Labor government of non-Orthodox Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion made provision for an Orthodox observance. Cantors and special prayer books were dispatched to Israel's army bases. The police detoured all traffic away from Tel Aviv's great synagogue on Allenby Street, while inside, black & white robed rabbis prayed and chanted. In the Tel Aviv area alone some 400 synagogues were filled...